Ion Gaztañaga wrote:

Sascha Lumma(e)k dio:

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Hi all,

I noticed that kernel 2.6 is a requirement for shmem on linux. Is it possible to get shmem to run - maybe with constraints - together with kernel 2.4 and the older pthread version (linuxthreads)? A start on a kernel 2.4 box produces a segmentation fault in shared_memory.hpp. To reach most users as possible, it would be nice to be compatible or if not possible to get as a minimum a normal termination.

Sascha Lumma

Sorry, 2.4 has no process-shared primitives, and it's not a priority to emulate them. If anyone wants to contribute them, they are welcome ;-)

I agree that process-crash is not an correct result, but could you investigate what's happening? Maybe an exception is being thrown when constructing a process shared mutex and that should be a correct error report, IMHO.

Regards,

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Thank you for the reply. The way i get this segmentation fault is just that i want to open_or_create a segment with the following statement. if (!segment.open_or_create(SHMNAME,SHMMAX,(void*)0x30000000)) { ..... In function shared_memory::GlobalNamedScopedMutex::acquire() sem_open (line 534) returns 0 and not -1 like expected in this case and sem_wait() gets this zero pointer as parameter. Sorry for the really short posting without any information for you. I want to improve myself ;-) Sascha